ON THE ISSUE OF ADEQUATE TRANSLATION AND TRANSFER OF THE SEMANTICS OF PAREMIAS FROM RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of adequate translation and transfer of the semantics of paremiological units from Russian to English. It is emphasized that the processes of globalization are impossible without taking into account the mentality and traditional way of life of the peoples participating in this process. Understanding them is possible only on the basis of knowledge of cultures and languages. It is noted that one of the main tasks is to study the paremiological composition of different languages and select appropriate equivalents in other languages. When translating paremias, it is important to rely on such principles as linguistic, cognitive, situational, and practical. But for a number of paremiological units, the selection of suitable equivalents is complicated by the lack of word combinations in a particular language, which in some cases is compensated by other word combinations. Quite often, despite different cultures and languages, paremias express equivalent concepts, for some of them there are even similar units in another language. The greatest equivalence is observed in paremias reflecting universal values, phenomena of the real world, as well as paremias borrowed from other languages. The lowest equivalence is observed among the paremias reflecting the most specific realities of the national and ethnographic plan for a given language and culture, as well as paremias containing components-toponyms or anthroponyms.